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The Tenth of January

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

First published 1869
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Asenath, hunch-backed and pale, works in a mill with prettier girls, and yet it is her that Dick courts--for a while, anyway. He is reluctant to break off with her when his heart turns to another. A disaster at the mill prevents him having to do so and gives Asenath a chance to be selfless.

Incidental supernatural content: Jesus comes to the heroine when she is dying.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1869 Men, Women, and Ghosts Fields, Osgood, & Co. Collection 43
January 2004 Men, Women, and Ghosts Project Gutenberg Collection
August 2006 Cover Men, Women, and Ghosts The Echo Library Collection
February 2009 Cover Men, Women, and Ghosts Dodo Press Collection
January 2010 Cover Men, Women, and Ghosts: Stories Repr. from Amer. Periodicals Nabu Press Collection
January 2010 Cover Men, Women, and Ghosts ValdeBooks Collection 31
January 2010 Cover Men, Women, and Ghosts HardPress Publishing Collection 31
August 2010 Cover Men, Women, and Ghosts Haunted Library Collection 31